The Sensemakers Club is a community-powered education space where curious people come to grow without performing or pretending to have it all figured out.
Are you a sensemaker?
A sensemaker is someone who helps people understand complex, messy, or ambiguous situations and turn that understanding into better decisions and action.
It’s not a job title.
It’s a role someone plays when clarity is needed. Some people make sense for a season, and some of us are professionals and hobbyists.
You might be a sensemaker if you...
- Translate between teams
- Fix structural issues no one else sees
- Clock patterns others don’t
- Care deeply about clarity and inclusion
- Question what’s next
- Maintain systems that prevent chaos
- Document what others skip
This week at the club
We are on our end of season break this week! No sessions are scheduled. Season 2 starts next week!
Browse our discussion groups or check out our full calendar.
2 PM ET The Beginner’s Meeting
Hosted by Mike Creech
A friendly introduction to the Sensemakers Club designed to help new members feel comfortable and connected.
3 PM ET The Analog Leap
Hosted by Kelly Hughes
A fast-moving creative exploration of analog visual making, where we’ll engage with paper and pen to unlock your creativity and embrace an experimentalist attitude.
2 PM ET Sensemaking Through Play
Hosted by Rebecca Hathaway
Discuss how games and play help us learn, collaborate, see past our assumptions, and tackle messy problems (and maybe play a game or two).
No Sessions Veterans Day
No sessions today in observance of Veterans Day.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Other Humans
Hosted by Erin Rodat-Savla & Karen Brothers
A brave group focused on understanding and improving teamwork dynamics, navigating conflicts, and fostering productive relationships without burnout.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Money
Hosted by Tarryn Lambert & Sarah Rice
An open, nuanced discussion aimed at demystifying money, fostering connections, and promoting financial empowerment through shared experiences and insights.
3 PM ET Sensemaking Community History (Live Recording)
Hosted by Cass Fellerman & David Farkas
Map out how the community moved from the Information Architecture Summit to the Information Architecture Conference (IAC), preserving its core identity while adapting to a new era.
What’s going on?
Week of November 9, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week Making Sense of Content + Design opened November’s “hidden expertise” prompt by asking what we each do instinctively at work that we’ve come to see is a specialist skill. Mindfulness & Modeling took up play, having members map their morning routines under an absurd constraint: as a subway map, a weather system or a recipe. Knowledge Management & Governance Support looked at the backup knowledge systems we lean on (Reddit, Stack Overflow, old product forums, saved reels) and how we judge whether they’re outdated, unreliable or inaccessible. Diagram Critique turned into a diagrammers’ lounge, workshopping an “enshittification mountain” and asking what diagrams are actually for. Pedagogy, Process, Production! Oh My! closed the week with lessons from Shift UX, asking what needs to change about how we teach sensemaking, work with our raw materials and produce for growing demand.
Themes from last week:
- Nobody compliments the pipes
- The half-life of knowledge
- Permission to be wrong
Gaps between our capability and our confidence create discomfort.
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